Stillness Quotes

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  • Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

    Joy   Miracle   Soul  
  • As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

    FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 09, 2011
  • We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

  • Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion
  • You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

    William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

    Science   Sky   Tree  
  • Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

    Art   Noise   Form  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

  • Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

    Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
  • I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

    Art   Achievement   Chaos  
    In George Plimpton 'Writers at Work' (1967) 3rd series, p. 190
  • Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

    Two   Space   Silence  
    Eckhart Tolle (2004). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.139, New World Library
  • Stillness overcomes heat.

    Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.48, Hackett Publishing
  • You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.

    Attachment   Self   Law  
    Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.29, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

    Water   Return   Clarity  
  • Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

    Eerie   Names   Silence  
  • When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernating hedgehog I relish the security of being withdrawn from all that summer ferment that is long since past. Then is the time for reappraisal: to spread out, limp and receptive, and let garden thoughts rise to the surface. They emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

    Summer   Winter   Past  
  • The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the day. First, there are the scents, which seem even more generous with their offerings than they are in the evening.

  • Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.

  • He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

    Mom   Thinking   Dating  
  • Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

    Waiting   Taoism   Mud  
  • Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

    Spiritual   Heart   Mean  
  • in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.

  • Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

    Home   Circles   Half  
    Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3066, Head of Zeus Ltd
  • Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion
  • We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.

  • Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

    Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.8, Workman Publishing
  • There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

    Science   Clouds   Sea  
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics
  • Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.

  • Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

    "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.
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